“And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.”

“The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.”

“When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.”

“Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.”

“If I think about what I wanted as a kid and what I want now they aint the same thing. I guess what I wanted wasnt what I wanted. . . .Hell, I dont know what I want. Never did. . . . When you're a kid you have these notions about how things are goin to be. You get a little older and you pull back some on that. I tink you wind up just tryin to minimize the pain.”

“I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.”